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The Nokia and Intel joined hands for a open source platform called Meego. Meego is a combination Of Intel’s Mobiln and Nokia’s Maemo. The Meego official site has revealed that the first meego release for Nokia ARM based Nokia N900 and for Intel Atom based netbooks is coming soon.
Valtteri Halla, the Nokia member of the two-person Technical Steering Group (TSG) of MeeGo stated that
I guess this is something that finally will signify the real “Day One” of MeeGo project, a genuine merger of moblin and maemo. What is scheduled to be available then is the first and very raw baseline to a source and binary repository to build MeeGo trunk on Intel ATOM boards and Nokia N900.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyebXporGr8
We will get you more info when the baseline package is out. But looks like this release will be aimed at developers and not consumers. We’ll have to wait and see if Nokia releases a consumer upgrade for the N900 to MeeGo
Similar Posts:At MWC 2010 we bumped into folks behind Rightware Kanzi -- a cross platform 3D UI platform. Here is a video of the UI in action on a Nokia N900 running on the Maemo platform. There is even gesture detection using the front video calling camera . Watch the video to see it in action
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdF1uAye548
The platforms supported are Android, Blackberry, Linux, Maemo, Moblin, iPhone OS, Palm Web OS, Symbian OS, and Windows Mobile. Kanzi solution is built on top of OpenGL ES graphics API.They are offering a SDK for developers to create the interfaces for the Kanzi platform.
ARM has outlined about the Kanzi engine and looks like a lot of ARM processors including the Cortex-A8,Cortex-A9 are compatible.
Kanzi is looking to license the UI to cell phone manufacturers and other consumer electronics products. It does look pretty cool and has even multi-touch. Can we ever see it on consumer electronic products ? Only time will tell
Similar Posts:MugenPowerBatteries have been in the business of making hi-capacity batteries for quite some time and they have been working on a battery for the Nokia N900 which ships only with a standard 1320 mAh battery. The stock battery lasts a day for average use but who does not love using a gadget for ever without charging ?
Mugen informed us that they are shipping a 2400mAh battery for the N900 starting this march and they are starting to take pre-orders for the same now.
Although this battery is bound to give close to double the normal battery life, the powerpack increases the thickness of the already chubby N900. A replacement battery cover ships along with the battery.
This battery can be yours for 87.95 USD and this is a discount pre-order price . Normal pricing is 96.95 USD
They are offering free worldwide shipping !
Nokia N900 gets a 2400mAh Battery , available for pre-order ©, .
Similar Posts:Firefox Mobile was released for the Nokia N900 recently. Here is an official video tour of the app running on a N900
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxO6W06LzvM
Interesting features of this software include
- Awesome bar
- instant bookmarks
- Specific search engine search
- Open tabs on left
- browser controls on right
- awesome bar automatically stows away
- double tap zoom
- Download manager – can download any files to N900
- Add on support
- Weave Sync synchronizes your desktop FireFox with Mobile Firefox. Syncs open tabs from computer to the desktop, as well as history and saved password!
- Manage bookmarks with tags
via MyNokiaBlog
Similar Posts:We have been talking a lot about the N900 which runs on the fairly new Maemo 5 OS . While we will be publishing an in-depth review of the device shortly, here are some pictures of the N900 for your viewing pleasure.Although the phone comes with a stylus you might rarely need one. Viewing the display is a treat ! Now let the pictures do the talking – N900 In All It’s Glory !
The face of the phone
QWERTY Keyboard
5 MP Camera – Megapixel Madness
Kick Stand
Simple yet Cool Maemo UI
Although its big i fits nicely in the hand
Multitasking FTW !
Here is how the N900 looks next to the iPhone and Omnia HD
We will posting more comparison pictures shortly !
Do you like these pictures or the N900 ? Let us know in the comments
Similar Posts:The final version of firefox for maemo version 1.0 is finally out for download
looks like flash is disabled..
had to restart the phone a couple of times to get the app working.
looks like its a bit more stable now
and this post was typed entirely on firefox mobile including uploading the image
goto firefox.com/mobile to download the software
Similar Posts:The Mozilla developers have announced the third release candidate of its mobile browser for Maemo. Firefox for Maemo, also known as Fennec, with the aim to improve overall responsiveness and page load time has disabled the plugin support. This also includes the disabling of Flash support on the software.
In the blog post by Stuart Parmenter, Mozilla’s Director of Mobile, said “We’ve decided to disable plugin (not to be confused with add-ons, which are supported) support for this release. The Adobe Flash plugin used on many sites degraded the performance of the browser to the point where it didn’t meet our standards. If you wish to enable our experimental plugin support, you will be able to manually via about:config, but do so at your own risk. We are working on an add-on that will allow the user to have control of which sites to enable plugins for, as some sites, like YouTube, do work quite well.”
Mozilla’s Fennec browser is competing against mobile browser giant Opera Mobile/Mini. Even though, Opera Mobile/Mini does not support plugins its main advantage of Fennec could be the ability to compress WebPages for those with limited data plan. As of now it is difficult to say how fennec would fair in the market. You can try out Fennec RC3 for Maemo supported devices, like Nokia N900 and N810, here.
Firefox RC3 For Maemo Released: Disables Flash ©, .
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Nokia N900 packs a 5 Mega Pixel Camera with Auto Focus. The Tessar lens comes with Carl Zeiss Optics and a Dual LED Flash. We have been using the N900 Camera for quite some time now and the images produced are pretty good. Digital zoom is possible upto 3x .
We have more than 30 images captured with the N900 Camera just for you !
To begin with we have an Eye from Swaroski
Giant Touchscreen
Finding Nemo
The light is captured pretty well
Vogue – What a color !
This is the uncropped version of the Swaroski from above
Apple !
taken against the sun
Taken inside an elevator
Sugary Breakfast
Ear-rings for the Ceiling
SOS
Attention
if you want to chk out the full size images chk out our flickr set
The N900 Camera is pretty impressive overall and it can be a great candidate for live blogging when combined with PixelPipe which lets you upload photos to flickr, twitpic etc. The Cropping feature is impressive.
One problem with the N900 Cam is that its kinda slow to grab a shot esp. when you compare it with other NSeries phones like N86 and N82. Looks like this is a software issue and it will be fixed eventually . We saw some improvement in speed after the latest firmware update for the N900.
You wont find this a showstopper unless you want to capture moving objects.The phone can also capture video in 800×480 pixels resolution, we’ll have some videos soon.
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